Reacting to some claims that Suge Knight made in "The Source" magazine about The D.O.C.'s Ruthless Records contract, Jerry Heller recalls sending "The Source" supply-money in the 1980s.

In a new interview with Prezident Bejda of The Murder Master Music Show, longtime Ruthless Records' co-founder Jerry Heller explained some inner-workings at his time at the West Coast Hip Hop label between 1986 and 1995, and ancedotes from his book, Ruthless: A Memoir.

Asked about his relationship with one of Ruthless Records' most storied acts, Dallas, Texas emcee The D.O.C., Heller inadvertently started speaking of a published piece of minutia that he asserts is untrue. "I have no animosity towards The D.O.C.; he was part of the Ruthless [Records] legend and history. The only thing was, that Suge [Knight], in an interview with The Source magazine, said that we signed [The D.O.C.] for a watch and a gold chain." Infuriated by the statement when it published in the early 1990s, Jerry Heller called the then New York-based magazine's founder and publisher. "Well, that's totally untrue. And I called Dave Mays, who was the owner of The Source at that time, and just fucking screamed at him. I said, 'How could you say something like this?' He said, 'Well, what should I have done? Suge told me that.' I said, 'You should have asked him to see the contract, man. That's what I would have done.'"

Elaborating, Jerry revealed that Ruthless Records was a ground-floor investor in the magazine that still publishes today. "Dave Mays and I had been—you know [Eazy-E] and I had put [The Source] in business. When him and Jon Shecter and [James Bernard founded the magazine], they were roommates at Harvard [University]. We used to send them money every month. See, The Source was a mimeographed sheet that would come over your fax machine a couple times a month. So we would send them a couple of hundred bucks every month, and we would actually pay for their supplies, to start The Source. I took it as a real insult to Eazy and myself when he would put that in there without checking it out. Of course it's not true, and wasn't in the contract."